Known for sharing her seemingly picture perfect family life with the world on her YouTube channel, “8 Passengers”, Ruby Franke broke the internet when she was arrested for the abuse of her children in August of 2023.
The influx of public attention to this case led to the creation of the Hulu docu-series, “Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke”, in February.
The series predominantly features Ruby’s husband, Kevin Franke, and their two eldest children, Shari and Chad Franke. While this is not the first media coverage to come out of this case, it is the first time the public was able to view shocking deleted footage of the once beloved family’s channel.
The docu-series details the chilling case from the very beginning of the abuse until the very end while keeping the identities of the four youngest children anonymous. Interviews with the two eldest children were heartbreaking, raw testimonies of the emotional and physical abuse they endured from the hands of their mother.
“There’s still a lot of pain,” Kevin Franke told Rolling Stone. Nothing can erase the horrors of their childhood, but the Franke family is in a time of resurgence with each member finding their own way of healing. Shari even released a book, “The House of My Mother,” earlier this year accounting the details of this case from her own perspective.
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